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Letter "T" » The Firm
«There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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About:
Destiny,
Determination,
Motivation,
Soul,
Will
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Keywords:
circumvent,
destiny,
determined,
fate,
firm,
hinder,
hindered,
hindering,
No Control,
resolve,
The Firm
«The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience»
«I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.»
«Character is the firm foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.»
Author: R. C. Samsel
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About:
Character
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Keywords:
build,
building,
built,
erected,
erecting,
erects,
firm,
foundation,
foundation stone,
lasting,
reputation,
stone,
The Firm,
weak,
worthy
«Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat»
«Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.»
Author: Lao Tzu
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Philosopher)
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About:
Water
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Keywords:
adamant,
attacks,
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
flexible,
forceful,
Nothing yet,
overcome,
The Firm,
withstand,
withstanding,
withstood,
yielding
«Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.»
«But the firm in knowledge among them and the believers believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you, and those who keep up prayers and those who give the poor-rate and the believers in Allah and the last day, these it is»
«Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(
Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
overpower,
overpowered,
overpowering,
resolutions,
rigorous,
roused,
sensibility,
subdued,
The Firm
«I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
ground,
I Pass,
pass,
relief,
result,
sea,
theory,
The Firm,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up